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The climate summary for March 2026 was released this week and shows that the contiguous US was the warmest on record. This is based primarily on record-setting warmth in the western United States coupled with significantly above normal temperatures in most of the eastern US as well. By contrast, Alaska had their third-coldest March on…
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The exceptionally warm and dry winter that affected the western US is likely to lead to summer conditions that could be disastrous in the extent of fire and drought that may be experienced. Grist magazine describes the devastating lack of snow cover this year, which usually provides 60-70 percent of the Northwest’s water supply and…
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The latest monthly global climate summary from NCEI shows that for the world as a whole, March 2026 was tied for the second-warmest since 1880 with 2024, and was surpassed only by March 2025 by only 0.02 degrees F. Nearly all of the globe except for Alaska was warmer than normal, but Alaska was very…
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If you don’t suffer from asthma, you might be surprised to know that an episode of difficult breathing can be triggered by a thunderstorm. The Weather Channel recently posted a story about how air flow in a thunderstorm can make asthma worse by concentrating pollen and dust particles beneath the downdraft of the storm. Those…
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The latest 7-day QPF map shows a large portion of the Southeast with little to no rain for the next week. The wettest area will be in eastern Florida where there is the potential for low pressure to develop off the East Coast and draw some moisture into the Florida Peninsula. Most of the rest…
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I got an email a week or so ago asking me about “fungal storms” and how they are changing over time. This was the first time I had ever heard of this phrase, which sounds to me like something out of science fiction. So I did a little research and found out that this is…
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April Fool’s Day is a little bit past us on the calendar now, but I thought this article by Kelly Cebulko of STM Weather provided a nice list of weather myths that seem to pop up over and over again. You might enjoy reading about them at https://www.stmweather.com/blog/april-fools-top-weather-myths.
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